Egg-carrier



(No Model.) Y J. BUR-NS.

EGG CARRIER. No. 315,476. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

ilmrnn STATES-1 PATENT OFFICE.`

JOHN BURNS, OF CHICAGO, ILLHvOis.

EGG-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,476, dated April 14, 1885.

Application lled March 11, 1984. (No model.)

l ples on the base, and the `case is ready for re- To all whom it may concern:

shipment. The case shown is intended to Be it known that I, JOHN BURNS, a citizen the parts shall not get out of place. this in two-compartment egg-carriers by the use of a recessed base, which serves the purpose of holding the partition and straw-board compartments when the device is in a knock? down form, and to support the sides and ends, and also to form the lower portions of the two egg-compartments where the device is in the form for shipment. The partition is removable, whereby the straw-board partitions when shut together, and thereby lengthened, have sufficient room, and when the device is used for shipment the partition extends from the-bottom of the base to the tops of the sides, and consequently with the other parts forms two egg-compartments. The main ends are hinged to the base so as to fold in 5 but the main sides are removable therefrom and are held to the ends by elbow catches and tongues and grooves. The cover is fitted on the ends by tongues and grooves, and is held in place by the same catches which hold the device together in a knockdown shape. By means of this construction the partition and straw-board egg-compartments, being in the recess, are held safely there by the ends, which fold iiat on theV top of the recessed part. The sides then are placed on the ends, and the cover on the sides, after which the hasps are fastened to the sta- I attain the ends D. These tongues and grooves are not new in this case, but are anecessary part of the construction. The ends D are also pro- ,vided with tongues o on their top ends to engage grooves d, formed in the under sides of the cover A. rlhe main boards D, C, and A to the ends, sides, and cover should be about three-eighths inch thick, and the cleats R S T about the same thickness, and firmly secured together by wrought nails clinched, and, if glue be used, the strength will be largely increased at nominal cost. Pivot-plates N N are secured to the sides C C, and to them loosely are pivoted hasps J J, which engage eyes O O, fastened to the sides F F of the recessed base.

attached to the hasps by small chains or wire cord. Pivot-plates H are fastened to the cover u of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, hold fifteen dozen eggs on each side of the parin the county of Cook and State of Illinois, tition, and each compartment is (inside meas- 5 have invented new and useful Improvements ure) about twelve inches high, twelve inches in Egg-Carriers, of which the following is a long, and twelve inches wide. specication, reference beinghad to the accom- To prevent the ends from springing out so panying drawings, illustrating the improveas to loosen the tongues of the sides when the 6o ments, in whichcover is removed,'elbow metal catches .e are 41o Figure l is a perspective representation of` attached to the sides and bear against the a knockdown egg-carrier embodying my imends, but do not project onto the ends far provenient; Fig. 2, a perspective representaenough to bein the way of securing the parts tion of the recessed base, one end and a porin a knockdown form. The recessed base is tion of one side in position as when set up, composed of a bottom board, B, sides F F,

T 5 the other parts being removed. Fig. 3 is a and ends E E, secured together by nails or side elevation of the case in a knockdown screws inasubstantial manner. Theinnertop form5and Fig. 4,asectionalelevation Online m, edges of the sides F and ends E of the re- Fig. 3. lcessed base are rabbeted out to iit reverse 7o The object of the present invention is to rabbets on the lower edges of ends D and sides 2O provide better means for storing the straw- C. The ends D are hinged to the ends E at board egg-compartments and the partition of P P, so that they may stand upright or lie knockdown eggcarriers, and to secure the fiat. The sides C are formed with tongues a case in its shipping and return forms so that on their ends to tinto vertical grooves b in 7 5 'Ihe hasps are held on the eyes by means of split spring keys L L, which are chains and split spring keysL xbeing em- IOO In the knookdown form of thecarrier the ordinary straw-board Stevens compartments e are placed in the recessed base and the partition W put on the top thereof. The ends I) are then folded flat down and the sides G placed on the top thereof. The cover A is then put on the top of the sides and the outside hasps, J J J J, are secured to eye-plates M, which are attached to the sides F F of the bottom, and the carrier is complete for reshipment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

JOHN BURNS.

Witnesses:

G. L. GHAPIN, A. G. MOREY. 

